Dostoyevsky’s The Underground Man Essay

In Notes from resistivity, Dostoyevsky describes a character loaded down(p) with significant familiar conflict over love which interferes with his ability to study rationally, prevents him from developing lasting friendships, and cause him to believe he has found unbowed love following a sexual encounter. After being hited by an military officer in a tavern, the Underground Man became obsessed with retaliation against the officer and planned a subsequent encounter where he could bump him with his shoulder and not yield an inch, (133, 135). The Underground Man wants the officer to cut across him with dignity and respect and as his equal. However, the Underground Mans unfitness to develop an actual relationship with the officer or even learn in a conversation with him is indicative of the Underground Mans inability to mean rationally.This passage shows that the Underground Mans heroic desire for human interaction irrationally causes him to seek a negatively charged human enc ounter. Instead of confronting the officer directly, the Underground Man spends months obsessing about the officer before he finally engages in pitiful revenge that leaves him signature like a failure. The Underground Man learns he is an unwanted leaf node when one of his former college acquaintances tells him that he has only been invited to a dinner company because he insisted on joining them and the Underground Man feels crushed and modest that his supposed friends dont really want him at the caller (153).This is another example of the Underground Man seeking friendship precisely his base and rude nature interferes with his objective. He becomes so concerned that his college friends argon ridiculing him that he insults one of them. As a result, his friends are disgusted with him and clear wish he would leave. Although the Underground Man believes he has fallen in love with Liza and wishes to save her from a life of prostitution, he concludes attractive means bullying and d ominating which causes him to insult Liza by paying(a) her for sex thereby treating her like a lowly prostitute (199). The Underground Mans attempt to save Liza is misguided. He does not have a better life to offer Liza.He may have additional monetary security moreover he lives in misery without any close human connections and his life experience is less(prenominal) fulfilling than most prostitutes. The Underground Man has lofty goals of saving Liza from a life of prostitution but he ends up insulting her by thrusting money into her hand as he leaves his apartment. Dostoyevskys created a desperate and lonely man torn apart by inner turmoil and conflict. The Underground Man sought love and friendship but ended up with tragedy, hate and loneliness because he was unable to think rationally, he allowed his ego to interfere with his ability to create and maintain friendships and he insulted and alienated a woman who may have loved him.